New Zealand -- History -- 1840-1853
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Peter Adams literary manuscript.
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-B-25
Scope and Contents
Collection contains a photocopy of the typescript of Dr Peter Adams's book, Fatal Necessity: British intervention in New Zealand 1830 - 1847, which was published by Auckland University Press in 1977.
Dates:
1977
William Fox journal of an expedition to Wiararapa [i.e. Wairarapa].
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-242
Scope and Contents
Copy of William Fox's Journal of an Expedition to Wiararapa (sic).William Fox, later Sir William, arrived in Wellington in 1842, and in the autumn of the following year, as an agent of the New Zealand Company, went inland from the Hutt River looking for land suitable for settlement. He had three companions, Charles Clifford, William Vavasour and a Mr Whitehead. The journey was difficult but all were impressed with the potentiality of the Wairarapa...
Dates:
1843